Originally, Chu Tian found this matter quite strange.
After hearing Jing Kaiyu’s words, a peculiar feeling arose in his heart.
When they arrived at the hospital room door, Yao Junjie was hunched over, peeking inside through the observation window.
Chu Tian went up and patted him, causing Yao Junjie to jump in fright.
"Third Brother, you scared me to death!"
Chu Tian gestured towards the hospital room and asked him, "How is it?"
Yao Junjie shook his head and said, "The boss was just sent back, but we don't know the specifics yet."
"What about their families?" Chu Tian asked.
Yao Junjie replied, "I heard that the hospital held some kind of seminar for the four of them, and their families were all called over."
Chu Tian nodded, turned around, and asked Jing Kaiyu, who was still looking inside, "Sixth Brother, did you see anything?"
Jing Kaiyu straightened up and slowly nodded, "It looks like..."
Upon hearing this, Chu Tian frowned.
It seemed this wasn't a simple illness.
Concentrating his attention, he quietly released his soul power.
Chu Tian's divine sense penetrated the ICU’s protective window.
Suddenly, a strange scene appeared before his eyes.
Lying here was their dorm's boss, Yan Pengkuan.
At this moment, a black airflow emanated from his nose and mouth.
It was expelled with his breaths and then drawn back in.
The cycle repeated continuously.
Chu Tian observed carefully; this black airflow was not air at all.
Upon closer inspection, it was composed of countless insects.
The tiny insects were extremely small, and their numbers were vast.
What exactly was this thing?
Chu Tian went to the hospital room of their second brother, Guo Ga, and saw the same thing.
He shared what he had seen with Gao Kai and the others.
Everyone expressed their bewilderment.
Zhao Lei remarked, "Insects? Could it be Gu?"
The others were taken aback. Zhao Lei continued, "Why are you looking at me? Aren't harmful insects referred to as Gu? That's what they say in TV shows and novels."
"Damn..." Jing Kaiyu gave him a glare, and everyone else dispersed.
Chu Tian said, "Little Six, go back to school and find out where they went that night. See if anyone knows anything."
"Huh?"
"Okay!"
Yao Junjie and Jing Kaiyu spoke simultaneously.
"Uh... I meant him, Yao Junjie, our dorm's sixth child." Chu Tian felt awkward; he hadn't introduced anyone yet after being here for so long.
After the introductions, Yao Junjie, with his naturally gregarious personality, took Jing Kaiyu and became quite chummy.
Chu Tian didn't understand what he was being so chummy about, perhaps just because they were both ranked sixth.
Jing Kaiyu didn't seem to mind him either. Instead, he said that he and Yao Junjie would go to their school together.
And so, the two of them left together.
Chu Tian turned his attention back to the four people lying in the hospital beds.
For a moment, Chu Tian looked at the four people lying in the hospital rooms, but he couldn't do anything.
Although he had seen something unusual, he had tried to use his divine soul to capture and disperse these insects earlier.
However, it was completely ineffective, and this thing was surprisingly unafraid of his soul power.
Chu Tian felt anxious. These four people had once shared a bunk bed with him.
Back then, he was often bullied, and the guys in the dorm always stood up for him.
But even if they hadn't been acquaintances, Chu Tian wouldn't have stood by and watched if he knew something like this had happened.
This kind of incident should have been managed by the Ninth Division.
Right, the Ninth Division...
Someone in the Ninth Division must be able to solve this kind of problem.
However, how could he contact someone from the Ninth Division?
If he could contact someone from the Ninth Division, he probably would have asked for the location of the Luo family's ancestral land in the Taihang Mountains long ago.
And so it went, until the afternoon when their families returned.
The hospital staff had not provided any solutions.
Finally, the hospital issued critical illness notices. Guo Ga's mother cried inconsolably.
Actually, Chu Tian really wanted to go in and observe the strange black gas up close.
He found that this black gas felt somewhat familiar.
He felt like he had seen it somewhere before...
However, without the family's consent, the hospital staff wouldn't open the ICU door for him.
At this moment, their families returned.
Chu Tian found Yan Pengkuan's father and explained that he wanted to go in and take a look.
At first, the father disagreed. But after the critical illness notices were issued.
When Chu Tian requested to enter the ICU room again, the doctor said.
There was no need; the four of them would be transferred to a regular ward shortly.
Hearing this, the families of the patients were all unwilling and started questioning him.
The doctor said, "Even here, there aren't any good treatment methods..."
He paused his speech at this point.
His words were essentially saying: Go home and wait to die...
At that moment, Yan Pengkuan's father became agitated.
The other family members also started to make a fuss.
After a period of commotion, there was no solution, and eventually, the hospital transferred the four people to a regular ward.
Chu Tian could finally observe them up close with his divine sense.
At this point, Yan Pengkuan's pulse was very weak.
Looking at his brother lying on the bed, who was tall and strong when they first enrolled and had carried him through a five-kilometer escape drill during military training, Chu Tian felt a deep sense of unease.
But he could do nothing.
Just then, Gao Kai entered the hospital room.
As soon as he walked up to Chu Tian, who was originally sitting on a stool by Yan Pengkuan's bed.
He suddenly stood up with a "swish."
Gao Kai, about to speak, was startled by him.
He quickly asked, "Xiao Tian, what's wrong?"
In Chu Tian's vision, the black airflow that had been cycling between Yan Pengkuan's nose and mouth had all suddenly retreated into his mouth and disappeared.
He thought Yan Pengkuan's condition was worsening, and he stood up agitatedly.
However, in the next second, Yan Pengkuan did not deteriorate as he had expected.
This greatly surprised Chu Tian.
Although, after he had broken through his physical limits and cultivated "Qi," Daotian had told him that "Qi" could mask his soul power fluctuations.
He was no longer afraid of things that could sense souls.
But Chu Tian remained cautious. After arriving at the hospital, he had always controlled the range of his soul power coverage.
During a conversation with Daotian, he had asked why he wouldn't be exposed after cultivating "Qi."
Daotian had replied that it wasn't an absolute guarantee of non-exposure, but rather...
Martial artists who possessed "Qi" were extremely rare individuals within the martial artist domain who could cultivate it.
Furthermore, with "Qi," a martial artist's strength would greatly increase, and similarly, the soul power of a "Qi" martial artist would gradually surpass the level of normal people.
If his soul power was revealed to be strong before cultivating "Qi," he would undoubtedly be labeled a natural soul user.
However, if he possessed "Qi" afterward, it wasn't necessarily the case. Soul power cultivated through later practice would not be tagged as belonging to a soul user.
But, if the soul power he displayed was even stronger than his "Qi," then things would be different.
Therefore, Chu Tian had always suppressed his soul power.
However, seeing the black airflow between Yan Pengkuan's nostrils suddenly retract, he stood up with a "swish," instantly releasing his soul power.